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Risso's Grampus {Grampus griseus) in the Sol way Firth — Robert 



Service .......... i 



Destruction of Wild Birds' Eggs and Egg-collecting — Lieut. -Colonel 



W. H. M. Duthie, R.A. 6 



Contributions to a Fauna of the Shetland Isles, Autumn Notes — 



J. A, Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. . . . . 9 



An Unusually Coloured example of the Thornback (Raia clavata, 



• Linn.) — R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. Plate I. . . 25 



Notes on Astronyx Loveni, Miiller — W. Anderson Smith . . 26 



On some Scottish Willows gathered in 1892 — Rev. E. S. Marshall^ 



Alchemilla vulgaris^ L. — G. Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S. . . 32 



Peziza am?nophila i D. and M. — -James W. H. Trail^ AT. A., M.D., 



FIS in 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . . . 41 



Polecats at Lochinver — Arthtir Beveridge, M.B. ; Notes on Voles as 

 Garden Pests — D. Melville ; The Ring Ouzel in Winter — Robert 

 Service ; Jackdaw Nesting in the Rigging of a Ship— -James Lumsden, 

 F.Z.S.; Note on the Sand Martin and Carrion Crow in Tiree — Peter 

 Anderson ; Goldfinch near Edinburgh — P. Adair ; White Wagtail 

 near Kelso — William Serle, M.A. ; Swift in November— -John Miller ; 

 Occurrence of the Hoopoe, and of a Buff-coloured variety of the 

 Snipe, in the Tay Basin — Lieut. -Col. H. M. Drummond Hay ; 

 Snowy Owl in North Ronaldshay— J. A. Harvie- Brown, F.R.S. P., 

 F.Z.S.; The Goshawk in Mull— T. E. Buckley, B.A., F.Z.S.-, 

 Spotted Crake near Moffat — Adam Fyfe ; Quail in Wigtownshire in 

 1892 — P. Adair; Great Snipe near Thurso — Lewis Dunbar; On 

 the occurrence of the Red -breasted Snipe in Argyllshire — Edward 

 Hamilton, M.D. ; Note on the Red-necked Phalarope in Argyllshire 

 — Edward Hamilton, M.D. ; Black-tailed God wit in Forfarshire — 

 /. F. Dewar, M.D., B.Sc. ; Ruff in the Outer Hebrides— Radclyffe 

 Walters ; Ruddy Sheld Duck in the Moray Firth— James Brown ; 

 Tufted Duck breeding in Selkirkshire — Edward S. Marshall, M.A., 

 F.L.S. ; Pomatorhine Skua in Perthshire — E. T. Baldwin; Canni- 

 balism in the Zonuridae — Right Hon. Lord Lilford, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 etc. ; Occurrence of Sebastes viviparus off the East Coast of Scotland 

 — Geo. Sim, A.L.S. ; The Clouded Yellow Butterfly— Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bart., F.L.S., etc.; Notes on Crambus myellus — S. T. 

 Ellison ; Reappearance of Euthemisto compressa in the Firth of 

 Forth — Thomas Scott, F.L.S.; Eledone cirrosa in the Firth of Forth 

 — Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . . 51 



Ranunculus Flammula and R. petiolaris — Arthur Bennett, F.L.S.; 

 Caltha palustris and its forms — Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. ; Lepigonum 

 neglectum and Polygonum minus in North-east Scotland — James 

 W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.L.S.; Lupinus perennis in Scotland 

 —James W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.L.S.; First Records of 

 Scottish Flowering Plants ; British Rubi— Ed. A. S. N. H. ; The 

 Champion Potato — W. Sim; New British Fungus — Thomas King. 



Current Literature 57 



Reviews ........... 60 



A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland — Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A. ; 

 British Fungus Flora — George Massee ; In the Gun Room : Sketches 

 in Prose and Verse — H. Knight Horsfield; Vegetable Wasps and 

 Plant Worms— Dr. M. C. Cooke. 



Recent Additions to the Natural History Department of the Museum 



of Science and Art, Edinburgh — R. H. Traquair^ M.D., F.R.S. 63 



Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinhtrgh. 



